Subj : Re: Computers
To   : tenser
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 20:31:00

 te> But if you compress the original, and _then_ uuencode it, you might
 te> come out ahead: if you're compression ratio is around 2:1, then

You've got me thinking about compression now..

The main front runners we had, probably like everyone else over time...

LHA/LHARC early on and not as efficient..

PKZIP most popular and had better compression than LHA variants.

ARJ less popular generally, but got a good run here for having better
compression than early versions of PKZIP although they end up much the same
later on..  Oddly, ARJ said that its default was to use maximum compression,
but if you gave it the -JM switches asking for maximum compression you'd
actually get a smaller archive.

SQZ, SqueezeIt gave exactly the same file size as ARJ a -jm but I just used
it to be contrary and had all the BBS archives converted to it :)  It was
never popular anywhere else in my memory...

None of these would reliably get close to 2:1 compression though..

Spec


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